LGR - Repairing & Installing a Parallel Port CD-ROM

BastetFurry

Check out that copyright message of the CD Player command line player! FTL Games! <3 Now you have to do Dungeon Master and Dungeon Master 2 one day. ;)

Zem Hysong

Should have grabbed your Quake 1 CD instead. haha. Either way, this is really cool. Love seeing these videos. Looking forward to seeing your ZIP Drive videos soon!

LGR

Totally should, that'd be sweet to see!

LGR

Totally, even if reads at like 1x it was a lifesaver back then since our school had so many of these PCs! Only two expansion slots, fun times.

LGR

It absolutely was. I remember having to set up these Okidata printers with those in high school. Beyond frustrating.

LGR

May as well be my tagline

LGR

Plenty of CDs, just "not on hand" since I never listen to them :) It's all vinyl for me

LGR

The whole game should be guilty of assault.

LGR

A disaster of a soundtrack to go with a disaster of a game.

Kris Asick

I was one of the extremely few people entrusted to handle the external CD-RW drive we had in our tech lab at the high school I went to, due to how expensive it was. Since a CD held more data than most of the hard drives at the school, I had to burn a 3D animation project I was doing straight to CD as it was being rendered... Actually, I still HAVE that CD... I should consider showcasing those really early 3D animations I did in a video or something... ;)

Rob Caporetto

Dear goodness. I don't think I've heard muzak that bad before. Very interesting to see it how it hooks up - it may not be fast, but it looks like it's a workable enough solution for machines that needed it :)

Jessie Cook

I had one of the 4x backpacks for my college laptop. I remember the pass through was very finicky with my hp printer.

LGR

This machine does not support EPP.

"Plans for the future" about the past. ;)

Extreme Paintbrawl... more like, Extreme, crapbrawl?

Steve Lovelace

All that vintage software and not a single audio CD?! I think you need to do some more thrifting! :)

Michael ONeill

We had those in my high school too. We are talking 1998.

Renzo Thönen

I honestly thought that music was played at double the intended speed. What an assault on the ears :D

Erwin Bierhof

Did you check if EPP mode on the parallel port in switched on the BIOS? Otherwise the maximum speed you'd get is about equivalent to a single speed CD drive.

Lindsay Michelle

Doesn't it feel good to finally get to something that you bought years ago, just sitting in storage until now? I would certainly think so, haha. Glad you got to do this! Also, I see Jeff Goldblum in your PC screen. Might want to get that checked out. ;) But I'm guessing that's not considered a problem for you, unlike the Extreme Paintball soundtrack :D

The Enforcer

Well... someone was clearly happy with their Casio keyboard. Seriously, WTF was that soundtrack? It just sounds like a mess of notes.

LGR

Thank you, glad you enjoyed!

LGR

Talked about this in the video as well. Since this computer's expansion ports are filled up, parallel is the better option :)

Timo Schmidt

Great Episode! More of this please!

DGDW (Derek G. Weber)

My first question was going to be "why not just find an external SCSI drive and expansion card?" Then I realized that's probably nowhere. Near as prevalent in the used market. 😀